Benjamin Franklin House London, England
Listed Building Data
Benjamin Franklin House has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1066930
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 9 January 1970
- Name
- 36, CRAVEN STREET WC2
- Location
- 36, CRAVEN STREET WC2
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30228 80412
- Easting
- 530228.0000
- Northing
- 180412.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/24 9.1.70 No. 36
G.V. I
Terraced town house. 1730 with alterations of c.1792. Brown brick with red brick dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys (the top floor a c.1792 heightening) and basement. 3 windows wide. Closet wing plan. Doorway to left, elliptical arched opening in plain stucco surround, recessed panelled door and plain fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Cornice-band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; parapet with coping. 1st floor geometric patterned cast iron balcony. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interior retains most of its original features with fielded panelling and cornices, pilastered archway from passage-hall to stairwell which is also panelled with dog leg cut and carved string staircase, changing to closed string for top flights, 3 turned balusters per tread, columnar newels; carved wood chimneypieces with pilastered jambs, etc. L.C.C. plaque commemorates the residence of Benjamin Franklin as Agent to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1757-72 and from 1770 to 1774 of William Hewson surgeon, physiologist and friend of Franklin. Part of the Craven family's C,18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft. Graded I for historical associations.
Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.
Listing NGR: TQ3022880412
